Books with Light Spooky Vibes to Welcome Fall

Between running her shop full of magical items and trying not to cast crazy spells when the mood strikes, Deegie Tibbs has a lot on her plate. 

When her boyfriend leaves her for her traitorous neighbor, she takes off to live in the back of her overcrowded bus. It’s not the worst place to live, and she’s done it before. Soon enough, a house across town comes on the market. 

Who cares if it has ghosts in the walls, a basement full of impossible things, and a demon? Good thing Deegie has the magical skills and some slightly mad friends to send the demon away and satisfy the ghosts so she can live happily ever after-ish.

There’s no better place to record a new album than an ancient country house with dark secrets. At least, that’s what Julian Black hopes when he takes his acid-folk band there for a summer. 

But when Blake disappears somewhere in the mansion. Years later, the band reunites when a documentary filmmaker wants to tell their story. 

What really happened all those years ago? And what is the truth behind what happened to Julian Blake?

The Owens women have been blamed for everything bad that happens in their small Massachusetts town for over 200 years. 

No one has felt that more than Gillian and Sally. The sisters have endured being mocked and taunted, laughed at and pointed at. Their aunts have always encouraged the whispers of witchcraft. 

One of the sisters runs away. The other gets married. But the bonds of sisterhood and family aren’t easily broken. And the two will find themselves drawn back home—almost by magic.

After Andrea’s brother Jim is in a serious car accident, she’s positive that all he needs is some focused hard work to recover. And turning a decrepit old mansion into a lovely cottage inn is the perfect project for the siblings. 

But from the moment Jim sets foot on the property, he knows things aren’t right. He hears voices and sees visions. Not to mention his borderline obsession with the ancient graveyard on the grounds. 

Too late, Andrea realizes that there is a terrible evil lurking in the house. Now the siblings have to confront it if they want to survive.

Standing tall over the shores of Blackmore Island, Wild Fell summerhouse rots. Built by a politician in the 19^th century, it has kept its dark secrets locked within its walls. 

The townspeople have prayed for over one hundred years that it stays that way. When Jameson Browning, a man with first-hand knowledge of sufferings, buys Wild Fell, he is determined to see the house restored and renewed. 

But the darkness inside the walls has been waiting for Jameson for over a century. And now that it’s found him, it isn’t going to let him go.

After watching her mother con people for years about her ability to see ghosts, Violet Willoughby doesn’t believe they exist. Until she’s visited by one very persistent one. It’s a revelation she has to keep secret. 

It’s bad enough her mother is trying to marry her off to the first advantageous suitor she can find. If she knew she could see ghosts, her exploitation would never stop. 

And then there’s the ghost. It died a violent death, and the killer might still be on the loose. 

Colin, her childhood friend, is the only person who can help her. But if he does, they might never be together. And if he doesn’t Violet might die.

In 1925, Alice Lind goes to a small hamlet in Gordon Bay, Oregon, with one goal in mind: to administer IQ tests to rural schoolchildren. She never expected to meet seven-year-old Janie O’Daire, a math genius. 

But it isn’t her ability to do math that shocks Alice. It’s that she claims she was once named Violet and she lives in Kansas. And she was drowned when she was nineteen. Alice desperately wants to believe it’s nothing more than a girl’s vivid imagination. 

Unfortunately, it becomes very apparent that it’s true. But once Alice starts down the road to investigate, she can’t turn away. And as the truth of Janie becomes clearer, Alice can’t help but face her own terrible mistakes and change the course of her life forever.

To graduate from Harvard, Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer researching her doctoral dissertation. The only problem is her mother asked her to handle her late grandmother’s estate in Salem, and it’s a request she can’t refuse. 

As she’s going through the house, she finds an ancient key hidden inside a 17^th century Bible with a yellowed piece of paper. On it is only a name: Deliverance Dane. 

Who was this women? And what does she have to do with a physick book holding lost knowledge? 

As she investigates Dane’s story, horrifying visions from the Salem witch trials plague Connie. Could she have more connection to that dark history than she ever thought possible?